Prm753

Gah, my stupid Windows and DVD-RW drive have teamed up to make me angry. The stupid drive has decided to not read any media whatsoever, and part of the problem is a Windows hotfix that I don't have. I had this issue once, and the drive started working again, but upon installing Daemon Tools and creating a virtual drive, the DVD-RW drive pitched a hissy fit and "died", in essense.

I know this is not programming related, but the dell support people will not give me an answer that works. I really need my drive back so that I can burn a bootable cd for a Linux distro.

Has anyone else ever had this problem, and if so, how did you fix it?
The drive is a NEC DVD-RW 1100-A model.

Thanks.

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Lich

I have an NEC, works great. Try ditching Daemon tools and use Alcohol 120% instead

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I've had CDROM drives die before. If you have another computer, try putting the drive in it to eliminate the possibilty of the fault being your machine. If it is a dead drive, request Dell replace it.
You may also want to try a different IDE cable or IDE channel. Also check your BIOS to make sure it's properly recognized and not registering as something else.

I remember reading something a while back about Daemon Tools interfering with other operations while a virtual drive is active. I don't remember if this was for a specific OS though (I was running Win2k and didn't have a problem). Try disabling the virtual drive, turning off daemon tools, and restarting.

tayspen

The d-tools support forums, may also prove usefull.

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Prm753

Tried that, haven't gotten an answer. I tried disabling the virtual drive and restarting windows, but that didn't work.

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What version of D-tools do you have? If you have the new one (V4 I believe) you might try the old one (3.47), otherwise try the other way around .

If that doesn't work then try deleting the drivers of your dvd drive.

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Lich

or updating drive firmware

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Prm753

I had version 3.47, because I didn't want to get version 4. (adware). I tried to update the firmware on the drive, but it was the same type. Grrr. At least I can still get into Beatrix Linux through VMware, but I'd much rather be able to boot to it through cd.

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There's no adware in version 4, not in mine at least.

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You can stop the adware from installing in the setup program. Just uncheck the box.

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